Adobe Analytics vs. Adobe Customer Journey Analytics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Analytics
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Adobe acquired Omniture in 2009 and re-branded the platform as SiteCatalyst. It is now part of Adobe Marketing Cloud along with other products such as social marketing, test and targeting, and tag management. SiteCatalyst is one of the leading vendors in the web analytics category and is particularly strong in combining web analytics with other digital marketing capabilities like audience management and data management. Adobe Analytics also includes predictive marketing capabilities that help…N/A
Adobe Customer Journey Analytics
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Adobe's Customer Journey Analytics is a service built on Adobe Experience Platform that lets the user join all data from every channel into a single interface for real-time, omnichannel analysis and visualization, allowing users to make better decisions with a holistic view of the business and the context behind every customer action.N/A
Pricing
Adobe AnalyticsAdobe Customer Journey Analytics
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Pricing Offerings
Adobe AnalyticsAdobe Customer Journey Analytics
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
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Community Pulse
Adobe AnalyticsAdobe Customer Journey Analytics
Considered Both Products
Adobe Analytics
Chose Adobe Analytics
It doesn’t compare, CJA is far superior, but if the use cases aren’t there it isn’t worth it, and Adobe Analytics is best.
Adobe Customer Journey Analytics
Chose Adobe Customer Journey Analytics
Adobe Customer Journey Analytics is poised to become the future of Adobe Analytics - it is more powerful, allows for greater customization and immediate feedback. Its ability to stitch on row or fields is far greater than Analytics, and ability to interpret events in a …
Chose Adobe Customer Journey Analytics
Adobe Analytics is limited to Web Data only. Adobe Customer Journey Analytics allows you to combine mutliple data sources and conduct analysis that otherwise would not be possible. Bridges the gap in data silos.
Chose Adobe Customer Journey Analytics
Adobe Customer Journey Analytics we can only compare with Adobe Analytics because all adobe products are serving different purpose. Moreover as I can see Adobe Analytics is also seperate then Adobe Customer Journey Analytics because if I have only website and app then I'll …
Chose Adobe Customer Journey Analytics
Adobe Customer Journey Analytics is like the big brother of Adobe Analytics. Everything is very similar including the functionality and how the UI looks like. The good part of Adobe Customer Journey Analytics is that the platform is HIPAA compliant. This allows us to do more …
Chose Adobe Customer Journey Analytics
We elected to move to Adobe Customer Journey Analytics because of the wider product offering and usability.
Chose Adobe Customer Journey Analytics
Adobe Customer Journey Analytics has additional features beyond the basic analysis workspace that allow for omni channel reporting, greater integrations with data from other sources, and being able to make changes to your data retroactively to reduce the impact of tracking …
Chose Adobe Customer Journey Analytics
Adobe Customer Journey Analytics brings together more of our separate data streams into one interface.
Chose Adobe Customer Journey Analytics
The main reason to select Adobe Customer Journey Analytics was due to its ability to merge online and offline data to show some insights. We did not have this ability to view both of these datapoints combined in one report. It helps with better storytelling to our leadership …
Chose Adobe Customer Journey Analytics
There’s no comparison. Customer Journey Analytics is light years ahead of something like Google Analytics
Chose Adobe Customer Journey Analytics
It is the evolution of analytics. Almost everything included in AA is available in Adobe Customer Journey Analytics, but more functionality is provided.
Chose Adobe Customer Journey Analytics
Both very good tools
Chose Adobe Customer Journey Analytics
Adobe Customer Journey Analytics has much more flexibility and power than AA. Workspace skills port over easily. However, there are some key AA functions that work differently in CJA and teams well entrenched in AA should be aware before switching. These include marketing …
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Adobe Customer Journey Analytics stands out due to its ability to consolidate data from various sources into a unified view, making it easier to analyze customer interactions across all touchpoints. Compared to other analytics platforms, CJA offers a high level of …
Chose Adobe Customer Journey Analytics
One major reason is no one can beat adobe in customer service even if we have problem they are their to help you out immediately. The amount of features and the ease of using tool customer journey analytics provide is sufficient for my organisation as other platforms are bit …
Chose Adobe Customer Journey Analytics
It’s is far more refined to my job managing my channel
Features
Adobe AnalyticsAdobe Customer Journey Analytics
Web Analytics
Comparison of Web Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Analytics
8.0
98 Ratings
1% below category average
Adobe Customer Journey Analytics
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Ratings
Lead Conversion Tracking7.589 Ratings00 Ratings
Bounce Rate Measurement7.795 Ratings00 Ratings
Device and Browser Reporting8.496 Ratings00 Ratings
Pageview Tracking8.794 Ratings00 Ratings
Event Tracking8.594 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting in real-time6.992 Ratings00 Ratings
Referral Source Tracking8.092 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable Dashboards8.393 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Adobe AnalyticsAdobe Customer Journey Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(279 ratings)
8.2
(82 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.5
(138 ratings)
7.5
(3 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(131 ratings)
7.4
(82 ratings)
Availability
8.1
(12 ratings)
8.7
(2 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(11 ratings)
7.4
(74 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(42 ratings)
9.3
(2 ratings)
In-Person Training
1.1
(5 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
7.0
(5 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
3.0
(11 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
7.3
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(2 ratings)
8.4
(2 ratings)
Professional Services
7.9
(5 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Adobe AnalyticsAdobe Customer Journey Analytics
Likelihood to Recommend
Adobe
Honestly, because Adobe Analytics is so customizable, I found that it is very well-suited for almost any type of web digital experience tracking of behavioral analytics. It has a very robust mech architecture for any type of e-commerce platform. But it is extensible and is easily adaptable to other circumstances. For example, in our university situation, we've been able to use it for student portal experience tracking, how well they are interacting, interfacing with our internal sites, and how well they are working with our task submission processes. But it does a great job of managing all aspects of the key journeys, especially from a marketing perspective. So while it might not be as out-of-the-box for some of those other alternative use cases outside of marketing, it's extensible and customizable enough that it's worked really well and met our needs.
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Adobe
It is well-suited when we are running a digital campaign, we are able to take the standard campaign metrics (impressions, CTR, etc.) and break them out by specific brands, device type, campaign variation, etc. It allows us to break down into the granular specifics of where we should iterate the campaign and make improvements/adjustments.
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Pros
Adobe
  • Within my role of advertising, I can come in, and I can see I'm paying for visitors, paying to drive people to the website. So I can see the differences in my different traffic sources, whether that's a Google search campaign or a Facebook social campaign. I can measure the quality of that traffic and see what they're doing, whether they're bouncing right away and leaving the website, or spending more or less time on the website. And whether they're taking the actions. My ad campaign is focused on filling out forms, and ultimately, that's it. Just measure and see if my campaigns are successful or not.
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Adobe
  • Customer journey analytics can be used to analyse data from a range of data sources and the data can be visualised, filtered etc. by users.
  • It also allows users to handle custom data to handle their specific needs and the data can be catered as per users need its like your own customised platform.
  • The best part is the integration users can connect this to various other platforms with one ID. This helps the user with easier usage and less hassle as everything is kind off a click away.
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Cons
Adobe
  • I think the biggest room for improvement is performance. When I go in certain times of the day or for certain clients, it's slow and it won't load the reports that I need. And as a result, needing to answer a question where you normally have the expectation of it being a near real-time answer that you get when you have to wait for reports to load or you have to wait because the reports can't load at all. It's a really unfortunate thing. It's a big problem actually. So I'd say that's one area of improvement. It's just improving the performance of the reports so that they'll load consistently all the time quickly and effectively.
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Adobe
  • When you come from the Google Analytics environment, where the dashboards are out of the box and built for you, it is a shock to go to a system where you have to build your own. This is especially true, if you are in an enterprise organization that has rolled out Adobe Customer Journey Analytics across all domains, but has not provided support to build dashboards.
  • It would be great to have more out of the box dashboards or templates provided to all users. Not sure if this is too complex for an enterprise use case.
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Likelihood to Renew
Adobe
We need it to discover threats long before they become a loophole in the security ecosystem. Also, it is very much compliant with customer standards and expectations. It provides marketing intelligence through in-depth analysis. Overall, a very good product to gain customer attention and thereby improve market
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Adobe
It's the most customizable and flexible analytics tool I've used. While the tool can be slow and clunky at times, the value it provides far outweighs those issues. Being able to bring offline data and merge with web data to combine in one place is where clients need to be get the most success out of their data
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Usability
Adobe
It is necessary to have a minimum knowledge on tracking tools so you can use the tool on full performance. It is not an introduction tool, so please bear that in mind. Once you got the knowledge you just need a small training on how to create your custom reports, where to find the components you need and how to add them to your dashboard. Then you share your report or create a rule for periodic sharing and it's done. Finally, if you have a lot of data stored the tool might be a little slower but that's ok.
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Adobe
The overall user interface is very easy to understand and navigate. The overall platform is highly intuitive and provides seamless integration across web, mobile, and other channels. The overall implementation is seamless, resulting in a faster time to market. The platform is built for marketers and folks with low-code experience.
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Reliability and Availability
Adobe
I do not ever recall a time when Adobe Analytics was unavailable to me to use in the 8 or so years I have been an end user of the product. My most-used day-to-day analytics tool Parse.ly however, generally has a multiple hours planned offline maintenance every two to four weeks, and sometimes has issues collecting realtime analytics that last anywhere between 15 minutes to an hour, and happen anywhere between 1 to 5 times a month.
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Adobe
For the most part, CJA is available. There are instances where the product is experiencing an outage but I haven't found this to be super frequent to the point where it really impedes my work
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Performance
Adobe
Again, no issues here. Performance within the day updates hourly. other reports are updated overnight and available to access by the next morning. Pages load quickly, the site navigates easily and the UX is quite straightforward to get command over. On this front, I give Adobe kudos for building a great experience to work within
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Adobe
Adobe Customer Journey Analytics does really well running reports. As data or date ranges get bigger, it sometimes has issues running. When there are a lot of freeform tables used, it takes a long time for data to load. There are time where Adobe Customer Journey Analytics is down during work hours, which makes it hard to do work in the workspace.
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Support Rating
Adobe
Support for Adobe Analytics is ok, it used to be worse years ago. Now, the technology team at Adobe is way more knowledgeable on the product itself as well as the implementation. They also study your custom implementation and have good knowledge of where your company stands. Dedicated support is something worth considering.
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Adobe
Good enough tools and offline support. We had a model of "hypercare" that was mostly good, sometimes not good. But that was more personality/people based, rather than established processes. Overall the support was timely and effective
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In-Person Training
Adobe
It was a one-day training several years ago that cost the organization several thousand dollars. There were only about 10 people in the training class. Adobe tried to cram so much information into that one-day class that none of our users felt like they really learned anything helpful from the experience. Follow-up training is too expensive
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Adobe
Should be staged differently. It should be Do online stuff, get basic skills/qual. Then do "homework" type tasking, then come to class with an instructor. We got the traditional "start from 0, then step 1, then step 2..." training. This usually saps energy/focus. All training should be like a lab/practice session. If someone needs information or basic knowledge ... put it in a elearning, FAQ, job aid, or resource page.
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Online Training
Adobe
The online training for Adobe SiteCatalyst consists of short product videos. These are ok, but only go so far. For a while Adobe charged a fee for this, but recently made these available for free. There are many great blog posts that help users learn how to apply the product as well.
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Adobe
Should have more of this for the 101-level stuff. No one needs a Zoom class covering the basics. I need a "guide on the side" when I'm learning new stuff. I want support while I practice.
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Implementation Rating
Adobe
One of the benefits and obstacles to successfully using Adobe Analytics is a great / more accurate implementation, make sure your analytics group is intimate with the details of the implementation and that the requirements are driven by the business.
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Adobe
Get trained up early, get your people in it and using/testing it.
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Alternatives Considered
Adobe
We evaluated and we currently use Mixpanel and we have Google Analytics on a couple of our properties. And honestly, once you get the hang of the Adobe Analytics workspace, the other products really don't stack up against it because the segmentation and the ability to create reports pretty rapidly are invaluable.
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Adobe
Adobe Customer Journey Analytics has additional features beyond the basic analysis workspace that allow for omni channel reporting, greater integrations with data from other sources, and being able to make changes to your data retroactively to reduce the impact of tracking issues. It also has a B2B edition with added functionalities for companies that have B2B.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Adobe
Adobe Analytics is relatively affordable compared to other tools, given it provides a range of flexible variables to use that I have not found in any other tools so far. It is worth investing in if your company is medium or large-sized and brings a steady flow of revenue. For small companies, it can be overpriced.
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Adobe
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Scalability
Adobe
My organization uses Adobe Analytics across a multitude of brand portfolios. Each brand has multiple websites, mobile apps and some even have connected TV apps/channels on Roku and similar devices. Adobe can handle the multitude of properties that have simple, small(ish) websites and the larger brand properties that include web, mobile and connected TVs/OTT devices.
Each of those larger brands has multiple categories and channels to keep track of. We can see the data by channel/device or aggregate all the data together. This gives our executive teams the full picture and the departmental teams the view they need to see their own performance.
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Adobe
You have the ability to create 'user groups' with different levels of access in CJA. We helped set this up for a large organiztion where they had marketers, executives, devs and analysts all having different levels of access to use CJA but with the appropriate guardrails in place for each user group. It worked out really well for their organization.
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Professional Services
Adobe
The professional services team is one of the best teams for complex adobe analytics implementations, especially for clients having multiple website and mobile applications. However, the cost of professional services is a bit high which makes few clients opt out of it, but for large scale implementations they are very helpful
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Adobe
Good offline/non-human resources (guides, FAQs, vids) Great support from people
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Return on Investment
Adobe
  • Adobe Analytics impacts nearly every aspect of a billion plus dollar revenue eCommerce business. From measuring the impact of new build features to marketing campaigns.
  • We are saving substantial money and resource effort by consolidating all of our properties to Adobe Analytics from alternative solutions, at which point we will finally be able to report on Total Digital, rather than disparate reports.
  • We support experimentation on every platform and the performance is only known through Adobe Analytics tagging.
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Adobe
  • As a consultant specializing in implementation, this has been very good for my business objectives.
  • My clients have found it very useful, as long as they receive training and support on how to use it. I have worked at organizations where it is not properly utilized because people are "afraid" to learn it.
  • It has delivered key insights for organizations, leading to improvements in their site design and conversion funnel.
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ScreenShots

Adobe Analytics Screenshots

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Adobe Customer Journey Analytics Screenshots

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